Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 68
AVhen I was a bachelor I lived by myself, And all the bread and cheese I got, I put upon a shelf;The rats and the mice did lead me such a lifeThat I went to London to get myself a wife. The streets were so broad and the lanes were sonarrow, I could not get my wife home without a wheel-barrow ; The… … There was a jolly miller He lived on the river Dee;He worked and sang from morn till night, No lark so hlithe as he.And this the hurden of his song Forever used to be—I care for nobody—no! not I, Since nobodv cares for me.
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